commit-message-guidelines

A set of rules for writing conventional commits, which are commit messages that use a standard type such as fix or feat and may include a scope. It requires lowercase wording, a maximum of 60 characters, and a complete ready-to-run commit command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing a Git commit so the suggested command follows the repository’s required message format.
Why use it?
It avoids inconsistent or overly long commit messages and removes the need to reformat a suggested message before committing.

Cursor rule

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/commit-message-guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules
Per session 85 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 85 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00085 $0.00085
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00043
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00009

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8baa9ddfe53a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-message-guidelines scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to commit-message-guidelines — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

rules/astro-typescript-cursorrules-prompt-file/commit-message-guidelines.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says


description: Provides guidelines for creating conventional commit messages, ensuring they adhere to a specific format and are concise. globs: *

  • Always suggest a conventional commit with a type and optional scope in lowercase letters.
  • Keep the commit message concise and within 60 characters.
  • Ensure the commit message is ready to be pasted into the terminal without further editing.
  • Provide the full command to commit, not just the message.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 8 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 8baa9ddfe53a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-message-guidelines is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to commit-message-guidelines, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.